Since seeing this video the other day, it has been bothering me that the mother just gets up and leaves her child. That dog could have easily ran around the car again and attacked her son some more. It’s the next door neighbors dog so it wasn’t like she didn’t know the dog that attacked her son. Here’s the entire video. It shows all angles of what happened. It’s 45 minutes long. The neighbors don’t seem too upset over what happened. At least that’s not the impression I got…

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Guard cat, seriously serious, watch the cat’s serious behavior, like a human Marine sentry. First the critical attack against the dog, at the cat’s own risk to it’s life to rescue the 4 year old child, then back to check on victim and cat remains by victim’s side until retreat, even though mother retreated first, oddly, and then cat retreats, escorting victim to assist in cover protection. This is a wholly unexpected outright intelligent pack behavior from a cat, who clearly attached to his family, especially specifically the 4 year old child. This is a very unique behavior special sequence, from front to back, a lot here on this one, with amazing implications.

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Opinion: Everyone wants to know how to make something viral but it’s not easy

May 22, 2014, 12:31 p.m. EDTBy Therese Poletti, MarketWatch SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Everyone wants to know how to make something go viral on the Internet, from giant media and tech corporations to small startups looking for publicity to consumers who would like to make a quick buck or have 15 minutes of fame.

So the instant popularity of the video of the cat in Bakersfield, Calif. , fighting off a dog attacking a 4-year-old boy may have some scratching their heads wondering how the grainy, 45-second video from a security camera has become one of the fastest-growing Internet videos, and went viral five times faster than the “Gangnam Style” video by South Korean musician Psy.

“This is a really interesting case,” said Ben Kaplan, founder and CEO PR Hacker , a publicity firm in San Francisco focused on making stories go viral. “It was mass media working together with social media in a way that hadn’t happened before.” Kaplan created a time line of how the video went quickly from the first post at 5:03 a.m. on the website of KERO-TV, a local station in the agricultural town of Bakersfield, to mass media and NBC News at 11:20 a.m.